Working in cases: British psychiatric social workers and a history of psychoanalysis from the middle, c.1930–60
The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA, 1939-1956
Urban Regeneration and Neoliberalism The New Liverpool Home
Great Depression social work story has lessons for today
Jewish Exponent | Women in Peace
Dorothy Kahn
The Fall of America Journals, 1965-1971
Community social work in Scotland
A critical history, fifty years after the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968
Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum
Wolfenden’s Women: Prostitution in Post-war Britain
Mothering in the frame: Cinematic microanalysis and the pathogenic mother, 1945–67
Afterlives: Testimonies of Irish Catholic Mothers on Infant Death and the Fate of the Unbaptized
The history of mental health policy in Turkey: tradition, transition and transformation
Eugene Debs Was an American Hero
Women in black: the surprising history of widows
Negotiating Memory and Restoring Identity in Broken Families in Eighteenth-century Denmark
‘Dear Mrs Brown’: social purity, sex education and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in early twentieth-century South Africa
Eating disorders during the Edo period between 1603 and 1867 in Japan
Encounter with Saul Alinsky – Part 1: CYC Toronto
This photo of children living in poverty caused shock waves in 1992. Where are they now?
The Guardian | C Easton
Katrina aged four (1992).
Overlooked No More: Rosa May Billinghurst, Militant Suffragist
NYT | LSE Library
May Billinghurst, center, in 1908. She used a tricycle wheelchair, which she was known to ram into police officers at protests. As a young woman she took up social work, assisting women at a workhouse, an institution for people who could not support themselves.
An eye for injustice
Joanna Harcourt-Smith, Lover of Timothy Leary, High Priest of LSD, Dies at 74
History of Social Work in the Republic of Ireland
Guns and Violence: Weapon Instrumentality in New Orleans Homicide, 1920–1945
A History of the Roles and Responsibilities of Social Workers: From the Poor Laws to the Present Day
The ambivalent role of the institution in the history of child and adolescent psychiatry: a case study of the Hawthorn Centre in Michigan, USA
The weight of history: child protection and parenting with a disability in 20th Century Iceland
A critique of the grand narrative of the Swedish model
Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
America’s social arsonist: Fred Ross and grassroots organizing in the twentieth century
Becoming Entitled: Relief, Unemployment, and Reform during the Great Depression
Our Sixties An Activist’s History
A Contemporary History of Social Work: Learning from the Past
History of Social Security COLA Increases by Year
SSA
Creating A New Profession: The Beginnings of Social Work Education
How a 1940s psychology study sparked the modern gay rights movement
History of Social Work in the United Kingdom
The Origins of Social Work: Continuity and Change
A History of Neuropsychology
How the Streets Were Made: Housing Segregation and Black Life in America
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Collaborative Archaeology at Stewart Indian School
The World Health Organization: A History
Fragments of Fury? Lunacy, Agency, and Contestation in the Great Yarmouth Workhouse, 1890s–1900s
A ‘commonsense’ psychoanalysis: Listening to the psychosocial dreamer in interwar Glasgow psychiatry
Fascism: History and Theory
How UChicago helped transform social work education
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Edith Abbott (right) and Sophonisba Breckinridge (left) founded UChicago’s School of Social Service Administration in 1920.
Noddle Pox: Syphilis and the Conception of Nosomania/Nosophobia (c. 1665–c. 1965)
Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
Shantytown, USA Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor
Beyond the asylum and before the ‘care in the community’ model: exploring an overlooked early NHS mental health facility
